Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Alternative combination: Pontosphaera bigelowii
Belongs to Braarudosphaera according to M. S. González Estebenet et al. 2021
See also Bown 1998, Pérez Panera 2013 and Tunik et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Braarudosphaera africana, Braarudosphaera hockwoldensis, Braarudosphaera regularis, Braarudosphaera stenorhetha, Braarudosphaera turbinea
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (5 collections), North Pacific (19), South Pacific (1)
• C1 of North Pacific (10)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (41), North Atlantic (36), North Pacific (61), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (26)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (10)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (32), North Atlantic (8), South Pacific (15)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (3)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (3)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (1)
• Miocene of India (1), Indian Ocean (26), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (1), Slovakia (2)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Indian Ocean (3), North Pacific (12)
• NP21 of North Pacific (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (18), North Pacific (2), United States (1: Georgia)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (3)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), North Atlantic (2), South Atlantic (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (4), Austria (1), Canada (2: Alberta), France (1), Indian Ocean (1)
Total: 369 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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